Welcome to Beth Pierce's web page!
Email: LDPierce@auburnschools.org
Read a good book lately?
Read ANY book lately?
Reading is my life!
Summer Reading List
I am a reading specialist, and I love to read--fiction, nonfiction, hardback, paperback, or e-books
online--everything!
For the 2008-2009 school year, I am teaching a "Grad Exam Prep Reading" course at Auburn High
School.
The reading course is designed to help students improve reading strategies across the
curriculum,
in addition to preparing them for the Alabama High School Graduation Exam.
A major goal for this course
is preparing students for reading beyond high school.
The reading class is not a
lecture course; it is a student-centered skills course. On a typical day, several
strategies
will be
explained briefly in class, and students will spend much of the
class time practicing those. The skills learned
in this
class will make students better readers, writers,
thinkers, and learners--
significantly increasing chances for success in
school and in life.
Regardless of current reading level, one of the best ways to improve reading skills is to read more!
I
believe this completely, which is why every student in my class will
be expected to read 20-30 minutes per day.
Just as in sports, music, or video games, practice improves performance!
"America is no longer
an industrial society where many people work on farms or in factories.
Instead,
most jobs now involve providing services or processing information. More than
ever, communication
skills are the tools of our trade. This course will be
concerned directly with helping you learn and strengthen
the communication
skills that will be vital for job success in the 21st Century."
(John Langan, Ten Steps to Building College Reading Skills)
| Weekly Agenda - Reading | Class Rules, Materials Info | Who is this Pierce person? |
 Online Reading Sites |
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www.childrensbooksonline.org
(Don't be misled by the word "children" in the title; there are many interest levels.) |
www.guysread.com www.pagebypagebooks.com |
www.alabamabookcenter.org www.freeonlinelibrary.com
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| Vocabulary, Literature & Comprehension Games & Quizzes |
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| www.funtrivia.com | ||
Search Engines "Argument, Persuasion & Propaganda" Study Links |
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| www.google.com | Argument, Persuasion, or Propaganda Chart |
Analyzing
a World War II Poster Interactive Powers of Persuasion, from the National Archives |